Literary usage of Genus Lagidium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)"'The genus Lagidium of Dr. Meyen is synonymous with my Lagotis; and the species
named by him ..."

2.The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)"The genus Lagidium (also called Lagotis), which includes " Cuvier's Chinchilla,"
is also a mountain dweller. There are several species of this genus, ..."

3.The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)"Another genus (Lagidium) are also mountain dwellers, but their fur is inferior.
Chinchilla. Closely allied to them are the ..."